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| Named Person: | Marcel Proust; Marcel Proust |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jesse Matz |
| ISBN: | 0521803527 9780521803526 |
| OCLC Number: | 45917222 |
| Description: | ix, 278 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Impressions of modernity -- Pater's homoerotic impression -- The woman of genius. "Call down Dolly" ; Proust in Eulalie's bedroom ; Conrad's distant laborer ; Ford's peasant cabman -- Woolf's phenomenological impression -- Three impressionist allegories. |
| Responsibility: | Jesse Matz. |
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Abstract:
"Jesse Matz examines the writing of such modernists as Henry James, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf, who used the word "impression" to describe what they wanted their fiction to present. Matz redefines literary Impressionism, focusing on the way that impressions destroy standard perceptual distinctions between thinking and sensing, believing and suspecting. He argues that these writers favored not immediate subjective sense, but rather a mode that would mediate perceptual distinctions. Just as impressions fall somewhere between thought and sense, Impressionist fiction occupies the middle ground between opposite ways of engaging with the world. Reconceiving Impressionist fiction in these terms, this wide-ranging study addresses the problems of perception and representation that occupied the great Modernist writers."--Jacket.
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- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Impressionism in literature.
- Proust, Marcel, -- 1871-1922. -- A la recherche du temps perdu.
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature) -- France.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Proust, Marcel, -- 1871-1922. -- À la recherche du temps perdu.
- Impressionisme.
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Letterkunde.
- Engels.
- Frans.
- Literatur.
- Ästhetik.
- Impressionismus.

